30.4.10

Dear friends, we announce you here that cultural activists and underground artists from Void Network and Natural High collectives participate tonight in a free open air psychedelic rave in ASOEE, a benefit night organized by the new autonomus worker's newspaper "DRASH" (action!), a newspaper for the self-organization and the social struggles of all the workers and the unemployed. Our collectives participate in this rave celebrating the night before 1st May demonstrations and inviting all wonderfull people to this free psy-rave night!

As Emma Goldman said in 1886 in Chicago, one night before the workers strike that created the 8 hours work week and all modern times workers rights: "If it's not to Dance,...this is not my Revolution!"

when artistic expression and inspiration were transformed into intellectual property, the market set the basis for the commercialization and monopolization of cultural works...

our collective anti-copyright campaign is an artist oriented effort that wants to criticize the current copyright framework law, at European and national level, as well the suspicious role of intellectual property intermediates such as AEPI, the Greek (music) intellectual property pimp...

we believe that music in order to evolve it needs to be circulated freely, without the artist's rights being compromised...

as a starting point to this anti-copyright campaign in Greece, focusing on freedom of copying and sharing music works, we created www.myspace.com/anticopyright_gr as well as www.anticopyrightgr.blogspot.com that will host campaign material, articles, links and the series of the "COPY?RIGHT!" exclusive collections with the cream of the Greek underground...

A DIY initiative for the free sharing of music and the protection of intellectual freedoms of artists against the music industry.

If you want to make something yours forever, just share it!

The right to share creative works freely and without restrictions is as important as safeguarding the intellectual rights of the authors.

Music is a public good and authors have every right to share their works freely (without meaning of course for free), without intermediaries, without financial or legal restrictions.

For thousands of years, the ability of music to evolve has been based upon its free sharing and reproduction, until the music industry took advantage of the Law on Intellectual Properties, developed the regulatory framework (copyright) to restrict free sharing, public performance and reproduction of music, even from the authors themselves.

The copyright, in a nutshell, is the absolute prerogative that authors' have in reproducing or copying their work exclusively or transfer the right to a third person (usually record companies) through issuing of a commercial license.

The Law on Intellectual Property Rights was created during the pre-digital age in order to protect authors' intellectual rights (ethical and economic) on the use and reproduction of their works.

The notion of Intellectual Property condemns historically free sectors of creation (cultural, intellectual, and scientific) to the exploitation of multinational companies and the industry.

While intellectual rights are obtained ex officio by authors, in practice the social and moral incentives to safeguard the rights of the authors turned into financial ones, through the commercialization of music and the penetration of the economic theory for intellectual property in the music industry.

Record companies in this way could now exploit the authors' property rights as they wished and determine their productivity, creativity and promotion according to the requirements of the market (demand) and fashion trends.

Given the (sometimes absolute) failure of authors to follow the economic return of their own works, an artificial need was created for intermediaries or intercessors that their main concern would be to safeguard the economic benefits of authors, on their behalf.

So, in every country legislative frameworks were created on Intellectual Property and Related Rights along with Collection Societies (i.e. Greek Society for the Protection of Intellectual Property – AEPI SA- for composers / lyricists in Greece), that have shown in practice that do not serve the majority of authors and common cultural wealth, but the economic interests of shareholders and multinational record companies, promoting or expanding monopoly privileges.

While, for instance, these collection societies were originally set up as self-managed author associations, in order to cover the insufficient legal framework regarding attribution of intellectual rights and safeguarding income from work exploitation, in progress they were evolved into revenue collection mechanisms of the music industry in order to minimize loss of earnings from public exposure, and control free sharing of music through the internet and “illegal” reproduction (see piracy). The problem arising is that the Collection Societies never attribute the appropriate percentage to authors, but rather share the profits among shareholders and the music industry.

Times though are changing. In the modern digital era, copyright law has been affected directly and fundamentally from the advancement of technology and the opportunities/freedoms offered to authors and users, as new tools were created for content production and sharing, which circumvent existing commercial structures and automatically link supply and demand, the author and the listener, without intermediaries, i.e. the music industry.

More and more artists choose to produce their own works in small and self-managed firms or net-labels, while they promote and share their music through the internet with great success. The industry's mediation role, which gave ground to authority/ power relationships, tend to be abandoned while the character of produced works changes, since, as free sharing grows, it is relieved to some extent from the notion of being a commercial product and tends to function more like a public good, as had always been the case with "popular" art.

Internet use expansion creates new conditions on how we share what we create or buy. Copyleft and Creative Commons (Cc) licenses were established in order to provide authors the opportunity to decide which of the rights, offered by the Intellectual Property Law, they should keep for themselves and which they will distribute freely to society, based on four distinct principles: a) reference to the original author, b) distribution of derivative works under the terms of the original license, c) encourage and regulate the creation of derivative work and d) prohibit commercial use of the work.

To cut a long story short, these licenses mean partial waiver of rights, where such waiver is certainly possible, and allow use of works subject to restrictions and conditions pertaining to the individual needs of author. They are thus reversing the copyright law, enabling a convenient way for authors to publish and share with the public as they wish, rather than retaining all rights, as it applies under copyright (all rights reserved). More and more intellectual works are published in Creative Commons (Cc) licenses, freeing knowledge from the chains of industry property.

User/audience may thus reproduce, distribute, perform, even convert the work, as long as there is reference to the original author and there is no commercial use.

The aim is to avoid problems imposed to the free exchange of (digital) information by the current Framework Law for Intellectual Property, mainly because of pressure from record companies to combat "piracy" and free exchange of music through the internet.

The free sharing of knowledge, information and culture in the digital age, is a prerequisite for developing an open and democratic society.

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voidinternational@gmail.com

VOID MIRROR [theory, info, global movement news]

[click on the photo] VOID MIRROR international digital magazine edited by Void Network >>>>> #BREXIT: What the UK Anarchists think about it? 10 POINT GUIDE FOR POST BREXIT RESISTANCE AS RACIST RIGHT WINS EU REFERENDUM // TEXT BY WORKERS SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT UK >>>> The Brexit vote for the UK to leave the European Union demonstrates that even weak parliamentary democracy is incompatible with escalating neoliberal inequality. In the UK as elsewhere a tiny segment of the population have taken a larger and larger share of total wealth in the last decades. Particularly under austerity almost everyone else has seen their share of the wealth they produce decline massively. We need to take our world back from the patriarchal white supremacist capitalist elite that dominates the planet and dominated both sides of the EU referendum. The transformation we need if we are not to face escalating poverty, war and climate destruction is a total one that eliminates the state and capitalism to create libertarian communism. >>>> click image [http://voidmirror.blogspot.com]

HOW TO ORGANIZE AN OPEN PUBLIC CAMP AND PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY

[click on the image ] Conversation with 'Some of the Participators of the General Assembly of Athens Greece'. This conversation is an attempt to open up the process of the General Assemblies taking place in Athens on Syntagma Square, like an engine, in order to understand how it developed, and how it works. It touches on the problems they have faced, the barriers of having fixed ideological agendas, the question of restricting media access, of formulating respect, creating the form for a new political speech, drawing lots, voting, making resolutions, taking collective actions, establishing different thematic groups, working groups, allowing conflict and arguments, constructing a non-representative political agency, avoiding demands, …. Please listen / share / republish / distribute this interview

Void Network is a cultural, political and philosophical collective that first appeared in 1990 in Athens / Greece with aim the radicalization of every day life, the social question, the arising of critical mind, the ecstatic collective symbiosis, the visibility of diversity, the participation to the emancipatory social struggles of our timesand the creation of Utopian Public Environments by non-employed cultural activists. Other aims are the participation and creation of social centers, self-organized autonomus spaces, the construction of situations in Public Space and the Ephemeral Art.

After 1998 and through the creation of political global festivals and the participation of Void Network to the emancipatory / anarchist / autonomus "Movement Against the Globalization of Capitalism" the Void Network established contacts and creative cells in U.S.A, U.K., Mexico,Brasil, Germany, Bulgaria, Spain

To Get To The Other Side // e-Book

To Get To The Other Side e-book is a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements

WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE

WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE The Greek Revolt of December 2008 //////// new book edited by A.G.Schwarz, Tasos Sagris & Void Network Published by A.K.PRESS released early March 2010 [to read long fragments of the book click on the image]

"We Are an Image From The Future" in Germany // Wir sind ein Bild der Zukunft

READ TEXT ONLINE: WE ARE AN IMAGE FROM THE FUTURE [THE GREEK REVOLT OF DECEMBER 2008 ]

[ click on the image] Even though an online reading can never capture the experience of reading a book, even though in this link there are not exisiting the wonderfull photos of the book....we propose you to spend some time reading the text of the book and share the link of the whole text of the book in digital form with your friends and comrades. [ click on the image]

NOSOTROS-FREE SOCIAL SPACE

From 2005 Void Network participates to the wonderfull experiment of the creation, sustaining and expanding of the social center NOSOTROS, a free social space in the center of Athens city / Greece at Themistokleous 66 st. in the world known Exarchia area. Including more than 15 different free lessons per year with more than 300 students, a radio station, fair trade bio-market, daily collective kitchen, cafe, bar, daily events programme, concerts, lectures, d.j. sets, workshops, art exhibitions, free cinema, photography lab, free internet accesss, theatre shows and all kinds of political, social and art activities Nosotros Free Social Space is a 2 floor vibrating building with a huge terrace overlooking square Exarchia. The Open Public General Assembly of Nosotros takes place every week in Monday at 21.00 >>>>> [click on the image for the site of Nosotros]

the eros effect by george katsiafikas

Void Network invites all friends to read the essay "Eros Effesct" by George Katsiafikas [click on the image]

the joy of the revolution by ken knabb

Voidness publications and Void Network proudly announces the beggining of the translation of the book "The Joy of Revolution" by Ken Knabb and the planning of publishing the book in Greek language. You can read the book in English language here [click on the image]

1 Million Users! Now Connected:

OCCUPIED SELF-ORGANIZED LIBERATED PARK IN EXARCHIA AREA ATHENS GREECE

[click on the image] Void Network participates and works together with many other activists, collectives and people from the first days of March 2009 until now for the creation, protection and sustaining of a Liberated Open Public Space, an Occupied Urban Space, a collective vision that comes true, the SELF ORGANIZED OCCUPIED PARK OF EXARCHIA in Athens Greece>>> The Occupied Park Of Exarchia is in the centre of Athens city / near metro station Panepistimio on Harilaou Trikoupi rd. / THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PARK TAKES PLACE EVERY WEDNESDAY IN about 19.30 >>>YOU ARE ALL WELCOME to participate in the creation of the park with your ideas, your dreams, your efforts

VOID NETWORK MANIFESTO

[click on the photo] This is the Void Network Manifesto in English language. It tries to offer some clear views about the cultural activism and the philosophy of political and social actions of the international affinity group Void Network

"YOU TALK ABOUT MATERIAL DAMAGES WE SPEAK ABOUT HUMAN LIFES'

[click on the image] "YOU TALK ABOUT MATERIAL DAMAGES WE SPEAK ABOUT HUMAN LIFES' (Perceptions of Violence Among Greek Anarchist Groups) is a lecture by Anthropology Lab of Void Network prepared as a participation for the ''Youth Violence and Identities Conference'' in 14-15 May 2009 in University of Kent . [to read the lecture in English language / click on the image]

VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY

click on the image to navigate in Void Network channel at YouTube including events documentation and VOID ART >> Created in the early days of '90s VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY is a creative meeting point, an open laboratory of visual artists, art thinkers and cultural activists. Through constant sharing of resources, machines, archives, images, ideas and visions the Void Network artists create cross-platform collaborations and multi screens shows, especialy created for the events of the collective, using improvisational shows on many different screens and synchronized projections producing moments where the visual arts melts into the sound, the light shows and the ectstatic energy of the enthousiastic crowd. This is not an Art-Show...This is our Life!

VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY

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GLOBAL EYE [LONDON section of VOID NETWORK]

[click on the image] This is the "myspace" page of GLOBAL EYE, theEnglish section of Void Network>>> GLOBAL EYE is a group of multi media cultural activists and space travellers as also a huge database of images, video art, ideas, visions and practices offered to anyone on this planet through meetings, free shows, exhibitions, open sharing, collective life and tribal ecstatic experience>>>http://www.myspace.com/globaleye [ for more info click on the image]

BRASIL section of VOID NETWORK / RIO DE JANEIRO

[click on the photo] This is the blog of Brasilian section of Void Network written in Portugese language. As main goals of Brasil Void Network cell are to bring in contact the Brasilian society with the ideas and actions of Void Network in all the world, establish contacts, collaborations and links with activists and artists from Latin America, work as an observatory for Amazon Rain Forest and express in all ways solidarity for the poor populations of South America>>> http://voidbrasil.blogspot.com [click on the image]

CULTURES OF RESISTANCE

[click on the image ] Worldwide, people from all walks of life are finding creative ways to oppose war and promote peace, justice, and sustainability. Culture—including film, music, and food—is fertile terrain for this struggle. Education that nourishes a critical mind and fortifies the soul is just as essential. Cultures of Resistance (http://www.culturesofresistance.org/) is the name of both a feature documentary and an activist network. [click on the image]

MAGAZIN NETWORK

The Magazine Network is a is part of a very informal, loose and more or less working association of individuals, condemning capitalism in all its forms and expressions, but currently too nihilistic, lazy, damaged or uninspired to proceed to a formal coalition while mistrusting all existing political structures (including its own). Still under construction!". To see the video actions of Magazin click on the photo

glass bead collective // laboratory for multi media cultural activism

Glassbead Collective (GBC), based in New York City, brings together individuals from diverse academic and professional backgrounds including video art, film, theater, architecture, photography, music, mathematics, fine arts and philosophy to create works which re-contextualize culture and the world in which we find ourselves today. GBC was founded in 2002. They have since produced various live art events and films experimenting with a multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary issues (mixing visual and literary narratives in real time) as well as created live visuals performances for events and autonomus public zones

VAT_OM OPTICAL LAB Void Art Laboratory

[click on the image] VAT_OM Void Art Laboratory (a.k.a. Glarax) is a v.j., cultural activist, multi media artist and official member of VOID OPTICAL ART LABORATORY. He is one of the most influential visual artists of the Void Network galaxy, focus mainly in space art, ecological and political themes as also in spiritual and meditative psychedelic art

ECSTATIC POETRY Void Network blog by SISSY DOUTSIOU

freeart zone

FREEART ZONE This blog is a zone of collective share for artists, friends and rebels. It is a free space for sharing new infos, confused thoughts, estethic images of life,conceived critisism and art for free and free.Or just to be able to reach everybody beyond at times of desert.

VOID NETWORK RADIO INTERVIEW

[click on the image] This is a 45 minutes digital radio inteview given by two members of Void Network (in ENGLISH language) during the Total Freedom tour in Mexico in November 2008, to RADIO DIGNA, an autonomous digital radio station of Mexican Resistance Movement from Baja California, Mexico. In this interview Void Network talks about Autonomia in Europe, about the anarchist movement and the the Antifascist struggle in Greece, about our experience of travelling in Zapatista Autonomous areas in Chiapas and the idas, the visions and the dreams are hidden inside the cultural work of our collective [click on the image]

VOID MIRROR

[click on the image] >>>>Navigate in VOID MIRROR, the international news and global radical theory Void Network blog...ALL MAILS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, COMMUNIQUES, MUSIC, VIDEO ART and THEORY ESSAYS ARE MOST WELCOME...USE THE EMAIL OF VOID NETWORK: voidinternational@gmail.com COME IN CONTACT with http://voidmirror.blogspot.com

THE END OF THE WORLD OF THE SPECTACLE

if we don't want to participate in the spectacle of the end of the world we will have to work towards the end of the world of the spectacle...The spectacle is where all the relations, the needs, the dreams, the wishes are turned into profitable commodity, into an obligation, into a blackmail....There life turns into a spectacle of real life and the world turns into an endless desert

D.J. CRYSTAL ZERO

[click on the image]>>>>>>> D.J. CRYSTAL ZERO from Void Network started organize underground rave parties in 1993 and he is one of the pioneer d.j.s in space ambient and psychedelic trance global scene. This is his myspace page

D.J. NIKITAS

[click on the image] >>>>>>>>>>>D.J. NIKITAS started his d.j.s performances in the Void Network psychedelic trance rave festivals in the end of 90s in the age of 17 years old. From that days he evolved in one of the best d.j.s in Greece blending explosive psychedelic progressive sounds with the spirituality of a sound alchemist. This is his myspace page

D.J. SISSY STARDUST

[click on the image] When D.J. SISSY STARDUST came in Athens in 2005 after 7 years in England studying Astrophysics (and psychedelics) the psychedelic ambient scene was small and non-popular. Some years after with the great help of this important, creative and enthousiastic artist the psy-ambient scene is becoming stronger and stronger, and SISSY STARDUST becomes one of the most important d.j.s of atmospheric thoughtfull electronica and intelligent space music in the underground scene of Athens

D.J. HIGHPNO

D.J. HIGHPNO is one of the finest new psychedelic trance and psy full-on d.j.s in the Void Network galaxy

D.J. IRAKLIS MINDPHASER

[click on the image] D.J. IRAKLIS MINDPHASER is one of the most creative organizers and d.j.s in european psychedelic trance scene. With the NATURAL HIGH collective as also with his participation in the events of Void Network he helps the Greek psy-trance scene to be one of the strongest underground scenes in the world

NATURAL HIGH family

[click on the image] The open collaboration and mutual help between Void Network and NATURAL HIGH familiy after 2000 manifested some amazing massive raves (like Electric Universe & Man With No Name free concerts with more than 7000 people and many more) as also helped to appear some wonderfull spiritual friendship among the cultural activists of the two collectives

FUNXION DRUM 'N BASS CREW

[click on the image] From 2001 until today FUNXION Drum 'n Bass crew share some wonderfull spiritual friendship with Void Network cultural activists. We created many great events together until now, featuring travelling in Europe for festivals and concerts. The link is the myspace page of the collective.